Understanding lesson preferences

Apple's actually done a great job by making these lessons intuitive. To that end …is a whole Setup section with options for how to view the lesson.…Let's click the Setup button, on the right side you have Appearance options.…The first allows you to see the video, musical notation and the fretboard.…The second just the video and the fretboard. The third, the video and the musical…notation. The way the notation appears is controlled by the left side. You can…choose between just seeing the Chord names, Chord names with the fingerings,…Guitar Tablature or Guitar Tablature and standard musical notations. Now of…course these are only visible when one of the notation options is selected in the Appearance.…

Currently it's set to Automatic mode. What this means is GarageBand will choose…the most appropriate option based on the lesson. Notice that alongside each of…these options is a number, 1 through 0. By pressing the keys on the keyboard,…you can quickly toggle between these views as necessary. So if you are…

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5/6/2009

Amateurs and professionals alike can use GarageBand to produce and share great music. In GarageBand '09 Essential Training, composer Damian Allen shows how GarageBand has broadened the spectrum of musical possibilities and made composing more accessible, even for beginners. He explains the basics of how GarageBand's tracks work with the loops provided, then discusses recording live instruments, working with the new virtual guitar rigs, creating custom loops, and playing GarageBand's built-in software instruments. He also demonstrates how to apply processor effects and use the application's audio editing tools to mix and master a final song. Exercise files accompany the course.